US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on May 12 for "Chemical recycling of plastic purge materials" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,186, issued on May 12, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Chemical recycling of plastic purge materials" was invented by Bruce Roger DeBruin (Gray, Tenn.), Michael Paul Ekart (Kingsport, Tenn.), Anne-Martine Sherbeck Jackson (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Nathan Mitchell West (Kingsport, Tenn.) and Zhufang Liu (Kingsport, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and facilities for using one or more PET-containing materials as a feedstock to a chemical recycling facility, and in particular a solvolysis facility, are provided herein. The PET-containing materials used as feedstock may comprise a quantity of PET-conta...